Via Danubia

Via Danubia
overall length	approx. 220
map
	Route of the Via Danubia between Bad Gögging and Passau
Starting point	Gunzburg
Target point	Passau

Via Danubia is the name of a long-distance cycle path in Bavaria along the Danube . The Via Danubia between Bad Gögging and Passau has existed since May 20, 2001. In 2006 a new section of the route between Günzburg and Oberndorf am Lech was opened. As a river cycle route, the Via Danubia is part of the transnational Danube Cycle Path .

The reconstructed Roman temple in Faimingen, an important station on the Via Danubia with roots in Roman times.

A Roman gate in Regensburg, the Porta praetoria , which gives the Via Danubia an antique flair.

The map section shows how the Via Danubia and the Upper German-Raetian Limes are related.
The Via Danubia (along the Danube) and the Limes (north of it) run more or less parallel for a long distance. They meet shortly before Regensburg and become almost identical.

Traces of the Romans along the routes

The Latin name Via Danubia is reminiscent of Roman history and culture, the evidence of which appears again and again along the way (from Latin via - "way"; Danubius - "Danube", after the male river deity Danuvius ). Along the way, information boards provide information about historical events :

Between Günzburg and Oberndorf

Günzburg - Guntia Roman military camp

Offingen - is on the Roman Danube south road

Gundelfingen - Roman milestone in the parish church

Faimingen - open-air museum around the Apollo-Grannus temple as the "highlight" of the route

Gundremmingen - Roman camp, so-called Bürgle

Aislingen - Roman fort

Holzheim -Ellerbach - Roman burial ground

Wertingen - Roggden - Roman burial ground

Buttenwiesen - Roman lookout point on the Thürlesberg

Burghöfe (Mertingen) - Roman fort, end of the Via Claudia Augusta

Oberndorf - traces of Roman settlement

Between Bad Gögging and Passau

Bad Gögging - Roman baths in Bad Gögging
Eining - Roman military in Eining
Regensburg - Castra Regina , the Roman Regensburg
Donaustauf - Roman viticulture on the Danube
Rinkam - Via as a long-distance trade route
Straubing Zoo - history of the city of Straubing until 1218
Straubing St. Peter - Roman history of the city of Straubing
Aiterhofen - Roman manors - villae rusticae
Wischlburg - Early medieval "Römerschanze" Wischlburg
Steinkirchen - Roman fort Steinkirchen
Natternberg - prehistoric hilltop settlement and castle complex Natternberg
Moos -Burgstall - Roman fort with civil settlement Moos-Burgstall
Haardorf - Early Roman military station Haardorf
Thundorf - Archeology of the community of Künzing , Museum Quintana in Künzing, Brick Museum in Flintsbach,
Vilshofen on the Danube Road and bridge construction by the Romans
Windorf - The Danube Limes between Künzing and Passau
Passau - Roman history of the city of Passau

Course of the Via Danubia between Bad Gögging and Passau

Connectivity

The Isar cycle path meets the Via Danubia in Deggendorf.

The Inn Cycle Path and the Tauern Cycle Path connect in Passau with the Via Danubia.

The German Limes Cycle Path , which meets the Via Danubia near Kelheim, can also be thematically continued; he also takes up the Roman heritage.

The Via Claudia Augusta cycle path, which is also inspired by the Romans, meets the Via Danubia in Mertingen .

The Danube Cycle Path in Baden-Württemberg , which leads from the source of the Danube to Bavaria, is the feeder from the west.

The Danube Cycle Path, which leads east to Austria and on to the Danube Delta near Passau , is the continuation of the Via Danubia downstream.

cards

Bavaria network for cyclists , cycle network map on a scale of 1: 625,000 based on the overview map of Bavaria 1: 500,000, ed. from the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Economics, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-910088-95-3